Ellie Young
Cardiff
Painter based in Cardiff.
The root of my enquiry is the interaction between reality and fiction and the interplay between subject and surface within the act of painting. I explore layers of representation through figurative works, most often different kinds of portraits. Inspiration comes from films, real-life and internet image searches. The work comes in series’ where paintings inform and engage each other, I use repetition as an opportunity to play with mark-making and the formal elements of painting. Recent work includes a complete history of space travel in tiny portraits, portraits of every member of the house of lords, cutouts of screaming women, paintings of crowds and cut outs based on real figures from the American west (all ongoing). I think that the challenge with painting people is in the convergence of the dynamic and the static, the fugitive expressions of the face coupled with its more longstanding character. I am increasingly interested in the drawing process and the way use of materials inform an artwork.
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